Jehovah's Witness
Jehovah's Witnesses are a restorationist Christian movement founded in the 1870s by Charles Taze Russell in Pennsylvania, originally as the Bible Student movement, and reorganized under the current name in 1931 by Joseph Franklin Rutherford. Their theology is strictly non-Trinitarian: they hold that Jehovah is the one true God, that Jesus is his first creation rather than God incarnate, and that the Holy Spirit is God's active force rather than a person. They use their own translation of the Bible, the New World Translation, and believe that Christ began ruling invisibly in 1914 in anticipation of the end of the present world system. Distinctive practices include door-to-door evangelism, refusal of blood transfusions, abstention from military service and national celebrations, and formal congregational study in local Kingdom Halls. The movement is governed by a Governing Body based at world headquarters in Warwick, New York. Roughly 8.7 million adherents worldwide actively report ministry hours.
Countries by Jehovah's Witness Population (19)
- 1. 🇯🇲 Jamaica 1.9%
- 2. 🇧🇿 Belize 1.7%
- 3. 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago 1.5%
- 4. 🇹🇻 Tuvalu 1.5%
- 5. 🇨🇷 Costa Rica 1.4%
- 6. 🇪🇨 Ecuador 1.4%
- 7. 🇻🇪 Venezuela 1.4%
- 8. 🇩🇲 Dominica 1.3%
- 9. 🇬🇾 Guyana 1.3%
- 10. 🇲🇭 Marshall Islands 1.3%
- 11. 🇨🇻 Cape Verde 1.2%
- 12. 🇸🇹 São Tomé and Príncipe 1.2%
- 13. 🇬🇩 Grenada 1.2%
- 14. 🇲🇽 Mexico 1.2%
- 15. 🇸🇷 Suriname 1.2%
- 16. 🇻🇨 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.8%
- 17. 🇺🇸 United States 0.8%
- 18. 🇨🇴 Colombia 0.6%
- 19. 🇺🇾 Uruguay 0.6%